art history

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• SOURCE: Daily Mail
  5/21/19
  

  Art Historian Timothy Clifford has identified the earliest known Michelangelo drawing

  This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was aged around 12.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  ‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis

  Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.

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• 4/21/19
  

  How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber

  Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/15/19
  

  Art Historian Caroline Bruzelius Discusses The History Of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

  NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art historian Caroline Bruzelius about the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught on fire Monday.

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• 3/19/19
  

  Andy Warhol: A Lot More than Soup Cans

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of the Whitney Musem's exhibit Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again and a reflection on the artist. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/19/19
  

  A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo

  by Vivien G. Fryd

  The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  John Richardson, Art Historian and Picasso Biographer, Is Dead at 95

  A celebrated raconteur, Mr. Richardson was described by W magazine as “the man all New York wants to sit beside at dinner."

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?

  by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown

  New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/2/19
  

  ‘It’s a Beatle haircut’: historian claims 15th-century portrait is from the 1960s

  National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian.

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• SOURCE: Artsy
  1/28/19
  

  How Nuns Have Shaped the Course of Art History

  “We think of these nuns as imprisoned, but it was a very enriching world for them,” Linda Falcone told Artsy. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/2/19
  

  The Louvre is returning sculptures to West Africa. Here’s how and why it's happening.

  by John Warne Monroe

  France is finally facing up to its colonial legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-12-16
  

  UK: Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects

  "A miserable and short-sighted decision."

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11-3-15
  

  Art historians are using games to teach

  by Anne McClanan

  Anne McClanan discusses the pedagogical utility of incorporating gaming into art history and museum studies.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-21-14
  

  Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait found by art historian Bendor Grosvenor

  Grosvenor also revealed famous portrait previously accepted as genuine was actually of prince's younger brother Henry.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1-15-14
  

  Trove of Army’s art awaits a new museum

  Nearly 16,000 pieces of art are awaiting the opening of the National Museum of the United States Army.

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• SOURCE: LiveScience
  12-10-13
  

  Were China's Terracotta Warriors inspired by ancient Greek art?

  A new study from the School of Oriental and African Studies says yes.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-4-13
  

  Report of Nazi-Looted Trove Puts Art World in an Uproar

  Authorities found an apartment building hiding 1,500 works of art confiscated under the Nazi regime in Munich.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  10-24-13
  

  Leonardo Da Vinci Mural Discovered Under Layers Of Paint During Sforza Castle Restoration In Italy

  The painting has been hidden from view for five centuries.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  5-29-13
  

  Israeli national museum finds owner of painting that was looted by Nazis during Holocaust

  JERUSALEM — Israel’s national museum has located the heir of the owner of a valuable impressionist painting that was stolen by the Nazis after a photo was discovered showing the work in the original owner’s home, the museum said Wednesday.Israel Museum spokeswoman Dena Scher said the museum purchased the “Garden in Wannsee” painting by the German-Jewish artist Max Liebermann from the owner’s heir after ownership was established. The painting is already on display in the museum and will stay there.The painting’s original owner, Max Cassirer, was a wealthy Berlin businessman from a family of art dealers. The impressionist painting, which depicts the garden of the artist’s summer residence, was confiscated by the Nazis in 1941 together with Cassirer’s other assets. After the war, it was given to a Jewish restitution organization and found its way to Israel....

• SOURCE: NYU Local
  5-14-13
  

  NYU art historian a "peeping Tom"

  Hey Finocchio, what grows on you when you do something wrong and lie about it?According to the NY Post, NYU art history professor Ross Finocchio was arrested on charges of unlawful surveillance, having been discovered at a West Village boutique recording women in the dressing rooms yesterday afternoon.While in another changing room, Finocchio reportedly hid his camera in a shoe, slipped it under an adjacent door, and waited for women to enter the space....